TO THE EDITORS OF PUT PRAVDY

ON THE QUESTION OF THE ARTICLES ABOUT IRELAND

Written: Written between April 7 and 23, 1914
Published:
First published in 1956 in the Journal Kommunist No. 5.
Sent from Cracow to St. Petersburg.
Printed from the original.
Source:Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 36,
pages 277-278.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
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I would ask the editorial board to let me know whether
my second
article[1] is being published. It ought to be.
If there is no room, drop me a line. Otherwise I cannot
write the continuation.

I ask you particularly not to be late (as you were with
No. 2 of Borba) in sending me Yedinstvo: the “pro-Party
Bolsheviks”[2] on it should, in my opinion, be held up
as a laughing-stock, with the straightforward statement
that they are zeros, who have never had a single coherent
thought on a single question. And Plekhanov should be
told: it is a pity that he is now nullifying his great services
in the struggle against the liquidators during the period
of disorganisation, in the struggle against the Machists
at the height of Machism, by preaching what he himself
cannot explain. Unity with whom, then? with Nasha Zarya?
with Severnaya Rabochaya Gazeta?—and on what terms?

We stand for unity, on precisely specified terms, which
have long since been approved by the majority of the
workers’, start from below, enter the underground organisation,
prove by deeds your refusal to join in liquidating the Party.

Not all who “cry” unity understand what unity is, or
help to bring it about. Those who destroy the will of the
majority of the workers are not unifiers but disrupters.

(A struggle against Plekhanov is unavoidable, now that
he has become involved in this idiotic affair, but he should
be set apart from Lyova and Mark, with the emphasis that
he had done service, but it is a pity that he is once again
on the roundabout.)

Write me more frequently, even if briefly. Otherwise
it is hard to get the co-operation going.

A thousand greetings to the paper, which has become
1,000 times better! Best wishes of every success!